Chapter 49: The Fire That Never Burned
Emma’s POV
Silas was gone.
But Everdawn wasn’t finished with me.
The moment he disappeared, the cemetery exhaled. The wind stilled. The trees stopped their violent swaying. The shadows curled back into the ground like snakes slithering beneath the earth.
But I wasn’t fooled.
This was a pause, not an escape.
Nate was still catching his breath beside me, his hands on his knees. Callum stood further away, his shoulders tense, his head tilted slightly toward the house, like he was listening to something the rest of us couldn’t hear.
I wiped my palms against my jeans, trying to steady my breathing. “Is he really gone?”
Callum exhaled sharply. “For now.”
Nate let out a bitter laugh. “Fantastic. So what? He just—teleports out when he gets bored?”
